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BIRDS AND NATURE. |
ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Vol. XI. | MAY, 1902. | No. 5. |
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CONTENTS.
- “HARK, HARK, THE LARK!” 193
- THE LITTLE GREEN HERON. (Ardea virescens.) 194
- THE HAND THAT STRUCK THEE DOWN. 197
- THE GOBBLER WHO WAS LONESOME. A HISTORICAL FACT. 198
- THE VARIED THRUSH. (Hesperocichla naevia.) 201
- MISSOURI SKYLARK. (Anthus spragueii.) 202
- THE MASTER’S PROTEST. 203
- THE SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN. (Cistothorus stellaris.) 204
- TWAIN LOVES OF JEREMIAH. 207
- THE ORIOLE. 209
- THE ORCHARD ORIOLE. 210
- THE PRAIRIE WARBLER. (Dendroica discolor.) 213
- APRIL BIRDS AND FLOWERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. 214
- BIRTH STONES. 216
- APPLE BLOSSOMS AND THE WARBLERS. 220
- RURAL RAMBLES. 222
- THE HORSE. (Equus caballus.) 225
- A MELODY. 227
- THE VERBENAS. 228
- THE BLUE SPRING DAISY. (Erigeron pulchellus.) 228
- THE LITTLE FEATHERED BOYS AND GIRLS. 231
- THE COTTON PLANT. (Gossypium barbadense, L.) 232
- THE CLOUD. 236
- INDEX. Volume XI—January, 1902, to May, 1902, inclusive. 237
“HARK, HARK, THE LARK!”
A little lyric, as clear as water,
Sweeter voiced than the river daughter,
Or Dryope’s moan,
Rang from the heart of the truest singer,
And straight the sound was the magic bringer
Of joys unknown.
For night had fallen and day had risen,
And, breaking through his eastern prison,
The glad sun shone;
And all was fragrant and sweet with morning,
And to the sky, the sad earth scorning,
The lark had flown.
And, faintly heard from the coast of heaven,
The song of the glad strong seraphs seven
Was earthward blown,
And echoed, with a strange completeness,
(As a small bloom treasures infinite sweetness),
In the
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